Chicken Flautas

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Ingredients for flautas:
*Chicken boneless breasts or your choice.
* 1 teaspoon Cumin
* 3 tablespoons Chili powder
* 2 Garlic cloves or 1 teaspoon garlic powder
* 1 medium Onion
* 2 medium Bell peppers
* 3 tablespoons Cooking oil your choice
* 1 Canned whole tomatoes or chopped
* 2 cups chicken broth
* Salt to taste
* 12 to 24 Soft tortillas

Instructions for Chicken flautas:
In four quart pan add chicken breasts. Salt, cover with water, bring to boil, loosely cover. Cook over medium low heat for 1 hour, drain saving broth. Set chicken aside to cool.

When cooled, chop in small pieces. In same pot add oil, sauté` onion and bell peppers, diced. Cooking overlow heat till lightly sautéed. Add chicken cooking 3 or 4 more minutes.

In blender add can tomato's, chili powder, garlic, cumin, oregano. Pour mixture in pan along with 2 cups of broth. Bring to boil, cover and simmer over medium heat about 15 or 20 minutes, salt to taste.



For chicken flautas: Heat oil in skillet. Cook corn tortillas, one at a time, in hot oil until soft, about 5 to 10 seconds; drain.

Strain liquid, then spoon 1 tablespoon of the chicken meat in center of each tortilla. Roll the tortilla around the chicken filling into flute shape.
Use toothpicks to hold the tortilla in the flute shape. ("flauta" in Spanish.)

Fry chicken flautas approximately 2-3 minutes or until tortilla holds its shape. Remove the toothpicks and serve 2-3 flautas on a plate.Serving salsa, sour cream and guacamole on the side.

Better flautas are on the softer side, not crispy. You need turn them only once.

You will like this recipe, it shows you exactly how to roll your chicken flautas.
http://my.eurekanet.com/~jimthomas/food/rflauta.html

Try our beef flauta recipe with step-by-step instruction.
http://www.mex-recipes.com/beef-flautas.html

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